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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMike Adams, the “yoga mat chemical,” and the chemical apocalypse
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2014/02/21/mike-adams-the-yoga-mat-chemical-and-the-chemical-apocalypse/Back in December, I was excited. The reason I was excited was because everybodys favorite über-Libertarian, New World Order conspiracy theorist quack, Mike Adams, a.k.a. The Health Ranger, had made an announcement. That announcement was that on January 6, 2014 Adams would announce astonishing scientific findings about food that would revolutionize nutrition and health. Given Adams past history of doing hilariously off-base things with scientific instruments, such as putting Chicken McNuggets under a microscope and being amazed that things look a lot different when highly magnified, resulting in his misinterpreting dust and probably flecks of spice to be bizarre and alien fibers responsible for Morgellons disease, I was hoping for, as I put it, comedy gold and blog fodder galore.
I was disappointed.
January 6 came and went, and all I saw over at Adams repository of all things that quack, NaturalNews.com, were reports from the hilariously named Forensic Food Lab at NaturalNews.com finding heavy metals and all sorts of toxins in not just grocery store food, but organic foods and superfoods. Holy hell, even vegan foods and seaweed and sea vegetable products were not immune from Adams incompetent use of expensive scientific equipment to generate terrifying numbers for concentrations of lead, cadmium, and other heavy metals. However, it soon became apparent to me that Adams was clearly using his newfound ability to misuse actual scientific instruments to find horrifying levels of metals and various scary chemicals in a lot of the supplements and superfoods that youd normally expect him to support. It was then that I started to realize that Adams lunacy wasnt really about belief. Not really. Not this time. Rather, it was about eliminating his competition by testing their products and finding them to be loaded with various scary sounding chemicals. He even went so far as to publish an unstintingly funny (unintentionally, of course) article entitled Heavy metals discussions reveal striking state of denial in the minds of some natural products consumers, in which he had the chutzpah to state, You cant pick and choose which laws of chemistry you want to be true, and then follow the section of his article following that title with a claim like, There is also convincing evidence that at least some people are able to truly live off nothing more than sunlight and air.
Uh, the laws of chemistry and physics say that living off of nothing more than sunlight and air is impossible for a mammal like humans. Mikey really needs to take his own advice. But I digress
Yesterday, the old Mikey was back. Gone was the Mikey ruthlessly trying to eliminate his natural foods competitors by revealing horrible chemicals and heavy metals in their products, and back was the utterly nutty conspiracy true believer that weve all come to know and love. The old Mikey was back in the form of an article entitled Battle for humanity nearly lost: global food supply deliberately engineered to end life, not nourish it. To drive the point home, right next to the title is a picture of a man wearing a hazmat suit and a gas mask. As if that werent enough, the second paragraph basically reiterates the title, saying that because of his wondrous scientific experiments Mikey has come to the conclusion that humanity is nearly lost. Dont worry, though. Hes only getting warmed up:
I was disappointed.
January 6 came and went, and all I saw over at Adams repository of all things that quack, NaturalNews.com, were reports from the hilariously named Forensic Food Lab at NaturalNews.com finding heavy metals and all sorts of toxins in not just grocery store food, but organic foods and superfoods. Holy hell, even vegan foods and seaweed and sea vegetable products were not immune from Adams incompetent use of expensive scientific equipment to generate terrifying numbers for concentrations of lead, cadmium, and other heavy metals. However, it soon became apparent to me that Adams was clearly using his newfound ability to misuse actual scientific instruments to find horrifying levels of metals and various scary chemicals in a lot of the supplements and superfoods that youd normally expect him to support. It was then that I started to realize that Adams lunacy wasnt really about belief. Not really. Not this time. Rather, it was about eliminating his competition by testing their products and finding them to be loaded with various scary sounding chemicals. He even went so far as to publish an unstintingly funny (unintentionally, of course) article entitled Heavy metals discussions reveal striking state of denial in the minds of some natural products consumers, in which he had the chutzpah to state, You cant pick and choose which laws of chemistry you want to be true, and then follow the section of his article following that title with a claim like, There is also convincing evidence that at least some people are able to truly live off nothing more than sunlight and air.
Uh, the laws of chemistry and physics say that living off of nothing more than sunlight and air is impossible for a mammal like humans. Mikey really needs to take his own advice. But I digress
Yesterday, the old Mikey was back. Gone was the Mikey ruthlessly trying to eliminate his natural foods competitors by revealing horrible chemicals and heavy metals in their products, and back was the utterly nutty conspiracy true believer that weve all come to know and love. The old Mikey was back in the form of an article entitled Battle for humanity nearly lost: global food supply deliberately engineered to end life, not nourish it. To drive the point home, right next to the title is a picture of a man wearing a hazmat suit and a gas mask. As if that werent enough, the second paragraph basically reiterates the title, saying that because of his wondrous scientific experiments Mikey has come to the conclusion that humanity is nearly lost. Dont worry, though. Hes only getting warmed up:
My lab has uncovered scientific proof that substances are intentionally formulated into dietary products to drive consumers mentally insane while causing widespread infertility, organ damage and a loss of any ability to engage in rational, conscious thinking. These toxic substances are being found across the entire food supply including in conventional foods, organic foods, natural products and dietary supplements.
This goes far beyond the mere contamination of foods with heavy metals a subject which is grave all by itself. Rather, this is about the intentional formulation of toxic substances into products consumed by the masses on a regular basis.
The result is what you see unfolding around you right now: mass insanity, incredible escalations of criminality among political operatives, clinical insanity among an increasing number of mainstream media writers and reporters, widespread infertility in young couples, skyrocketing rates of kidney failure and dialysis patients, plus a near total loss of rational thinking among the voting masses.
Mike Adams is the face of medical woo on the internet.
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Mike Adams, the “yoga mat chemical,” and the chemical apocalypse (Original Post)
SidDithers
Feb 2014
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(40,416 posts)1. Dr. David "Orac" Gorski is damned good.
He has a tremendously good Blog. He also writes for the Science Based Medicine Blog along with a bunch of other great physicians.
Happy to R&K.
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)2. And Mike Adams is a total tool...
but the woo purveyors do love him.
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